Tuesday, February 24th, 2026
How about we freshen up the snow banks a little.
While history was being made in Rhode Island with more than 3 feet of snow generated by the bomb cyclone blizzard of 2026 this week ~ we had sun shining with just a few stray flakes on the very northwest side of that ~ deepest snowstorm in a lifetime ~ for people near Providence.
They had the kind of snow we regularly expect around here.
But the storm track has been a bit stingy for us the last several days.
Now the pattern is rearranging just enough that we have a marginal powder day Wednesday. that may linger into Thursday.
It’s a fast flow high up in the sky with a weak warm front and a wave of low pressure coming along the Arctic boundary that settled south behind the nor'easter. First a high pressure system comes right over us Tuesday night with a low temperature pretty close to 0° and snow arriving around sunrise. As this next low pressure system comes at us it gets a bit breezy with snow in the air most of Wednesday. But it should warm up rapidly into the lower 20s with wind from the south and snow of varying intensity just about all day long. We’ll probably get an initial burst of an inch or two of snow in the morning. Then maybe a bit of a lull before snow showers and snow squalls with the Arctic front come back overhead during the evening. That could drop another 2 inches of snow in a pretty good hurry with shifting wind. Snow showers continue Wednesday night into early Thursday and may add another 2 inches.
So optimistically speaking, we’re looking at close to 6 inches of snow by Thursday.
There’s a good deal of uncertainty where we'll see the Arctic and Polar fronts align later this week and into the weekend. With a fast flow aloft and we’re not expecting any big storms here. But we may get ourselves some nickel and dime type of snow into the weekend. It's rather cold for this time of year with temperatures mostly in the teens on the mountain. It's also rather unstable 'Low Barometer Cold' so it won’t take a lot to get more snowflakes to come out of the sky. We just can’t focus when and how much yet.
The early call for the weekend would be a warm front Friday night, pushing the temperature back up to near freezing for Saturday as another surge of Arctic air aims itself at the northeast kingdom later Saturday into Sunday. That should generate at least a few inches of snow probably during the day, and gusty wind for Saturday. A fairly strong low pressure system is passing to our north, and it’s going to push an arctic front through here early Sunday March 1st. The month may open, like a lion in the temperature department anyway, hopefully snow too.
More snow squalls Saturday night should be blowing around Sunday with the temperature probably only in the single numbers with sun and clouds and snowflakes all mixed in the sky.
Then we may have some record challenging chill here by Monday morning. We have to watch how that cold pool, possible polar vortex, evolves. It usually happens with snow on the front side and the backside. The backside would probably be next Tuesday or Wednesday.
More of the look and feel of midwinter around here than the first day of meteorological spring, that is March 1st.
Hopefully we can iron out more firm details on how it all plays out when we talk again Friday.
See you again then.
TK
